ART

Catch the exhibit “Untitled (Painting),” an exhibit by multiple artists, paired with Larry Clark’s 64-minute black-and-white film Tulsa, 1968 at Luhring Augustine before its close on Feb. 5. The nine contemporary artists showing all exhibit a unique approach to both traditional and nontraditional methods and abstract painting. A visual smorgasbord (531 West 24th Street). Read More

ART

Give your high-school student a chance to unleash their creative spirit at the Whitney Museum by constructing their own version of art at the Teen Artist Workshop: Karthik Pandian. Mr. Pandian, best known for highlighting the interaction between modern society and its treatment of monuments, currently has an exhibit, “Unearth,” on display at the Read More

ART

Andy Warhol’s newest exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, “Motion Pictures,” is a must-see this season. The exhibit of black-and-white film projected on screens throughout the gallery is slowed from 24 to 16 frames per second, which mimics the speed of film from the 1890s through the 1920s. These are the images as Read More

Seasonal

Mark Morris‘ quirky reinvention of the tired and true seasonal ballet, The Hard Nut, may be just what you need this holiday season. The androgenous, offbeat play is set in the 1960′s, and features an Elvis inspired Rat King, tutu-ed male dancers and a hand-jive–all to the original Tchaikovsky score (through Sunday, BAM Howard Read More

ART

Nathan Sawaya’s new exhibit highlights the artist’s claim to fame-making installations entirely out of Legos. The newest series of works and sculpture at Agora Gallery showcases his giant suspended human forms and other figures fashioned entirely out of the colorful little blocks (530 West 25th St., through Dec. 14).

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MUSIC

Go to the opening of JapanNYC, a citywide, 65-event festival running through March. Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra will perform Dec. 14, 15, 18 and famed Maestro Seiji Ozawa himself will return on April 1 and 2 to lead the Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku (Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Orchestra) as part of this unique festival exploring Read More

EXHIBITIONS

New York shutterbug Emily Wilson releases her first photography book, Grand and Lorimer, on Nov. 20. The book focuses on Brooklyn’s art and music scene and captures artists such as TV on the Radio, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs and Oakley Hall. And, what’s a book release without a party? It’s Saturday, from 4p.m. to 7 Read More

EVENTS

Finance buffs may have a handle on the crisis, but for the rest of us, there’s “Tracking the Credit Crisis,” a video presentation in tandem with a giant wall display (Museum of American Finance, 10 a.m., ongoing). The exhibit follows the complicated course of the crisis, from when the housing bubble began to burst Read More

MUSIC

Let Italian transplant Alessio Bax take you away from the rush of the city for a night, as he effortlessly plays Brahm’s Ballades, Granado’s “El amor y la muerte” and Ravel’s La Valse, among others. The critically acclaimed pianist is making his New York recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Grace Rainey Read More

TALKS

Hear modern takes on classic fairy tales at Selected Shorts: Fairy Tales: Classic and Reimagined. Actresses Lili Taylor and Christine Ebersole lead the cast. Stories range from Joyce Carol Oates to Jonathon Keats, from the anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. (7 p.m., Wednesday, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, $15). Read More